Frisco Larson Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Local comic shop pick up 3 days ago. RetiredOldMan, KirbyJack and Math Teacher 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 Quite a haul! I also got my copies of FF2 and JIM 83 at my local shop, in the same deal. To this day, still my biggest buy! Frisco Larson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frisco Larson Posted March 1, 2020 Share Posted March 1, 2020 2 hours ago, KirbyJack said: Quite a haul! I also got my copies of FF2 and JIM 83 at my local shop, in the same deal. To this day, still my biggest buy! Thanks KJ! It was an AWESOME day to be sure! VERY cool that your deal went down the same way KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
956Ref Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 On 7/24/2019 at 12:56 PM, The Commissioner said: I posted these in the "Pre-Hero Marvels!" thread, but figured they would be appreciated here as well. I'm new to collecting, but this is my favorite series so far. Those books are awesome. I love the JIM horror and monster books. I started on this run a couple years back and half roughly about half. Every time I come across a dealer and tell him Im working on that run they are surprised of the progress ive made. Everyone has the same ones and never any of the early issues. I cant say enough how under valued that JIM line is. ITS GOLD! KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted March 13, 2020 Share Posted March 13, 2020 Black when they made covers exciting, now every cover is a superhero striking a pose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 1 hour ago, Kevin76 said: Black when they made covers exciting, now every cover is a superhero striking a pose. But the OA sells for so much more that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted March 16, 2020 Share Posted March 16, 2020 On 3/13/2020 at 8:17 PM, KirbyJack said: But the OA sells for so much more that way. That's definitely true, most likely that's why they keep doing it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WernerVonDoom Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 On 12/22/2019 at 2:58 PM, KirbyJack said: These will be among the very last comics I ever sell. Wow - I'm so jealous. Just awesome! KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WernerVonDoom Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 This is my best JIM. Bought from Motor City Comics back in the day: Sweet Lou 14 and KirbyJack 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KirbyJack Posted March 21, 2020 Share Posted March 21, 2020 That is a beautiful, underrated book. Now I’m jealous; mine's a rag! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 My only 2 journeys (for now) 2 of the best covers in the run. IMO KirbyJack, Sweet Lou 14 and Keep_It_Clunky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 I have a 7.0 OW/W copy of JIM #84. It cost me $1,200 about two years ago. I figured maybe I would try upgrading to an 8.0, by bidding here: https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?id=1389644 I knew going in that last year, an 8.0 OW/W sold for $2,760 on Heritage. That's a lot of money, more than double what I paid for my 7.0, but I was ready to bid in that range or above. By this evening, I was surprised to see that the bidding on this copy was up over $3,600. Huh? Then later on tonight, the auction closed at $8,651. I've seen plenty of crazy auction results over the years, but this one has me scratching my head more than most. Huge congrats to the seller ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweet Lou 14 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) 7 hours ago, Batmanis#1 said: Thor is hot still super cheap in my opinion JIM 83. It almost tripled at one point in the last 12 months in value but still cheap in almost all grades. In my opinion should rank higher than it is in the TOP SA books. That may be so, but I don't think outlier sales like this one truly set the market, I think they are just outliers. Just last month, a similar thing happened with JIM #85. There were two 9.0s on the market -- one with a Buy Now price of $8,250 on eBay and another up for auction on ComicLink. The ComicLink copy (no better or worse than the eBay copy) sold for over $15K. I thought I was quick to go after the eBay book, but somebody beat me to it. Sure enough, they put it up on ComicLink, where I won it for $7,600. They didn't lose a ton of money, but they also didn't double their money like they thought they would by flipping the book. Edited March 27, 2020 by Sweet Lou 14 KirbyJack 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 10 hours ago, Sweet Lou 14 said: I have a 7.0 OW/W copy of JIM #84. It cost me $1,200 about two years ago. I figured maybe I would try upgrading to an 8.0, by bidding here: https://www.comiclink.com/Auctions/item.asp?id=1389644 I knew going in that last year, an 8.0 OW/W sold for $2,760 on Heritage. That's a lot of money, more than double what I paid for my 7.0, but I was ready to bid in that range or above. By this evening, I was surprised to see that the bidding on this copy was up over $3,600. Huh? Then later on tonight, the auction closed at $8,651. I've seen plenty of crazy auction results over the years, but this one has me scratching my head more than most. Huge congrats to the seller ... $8600 is crazy! Then again, you rarely see this being offered anything above an 8.0 which is why it went for huge $$ Book would have tanked if it was on an eBay auction haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 19 minutes ago, Sweet Lou 14 said: That may be so, but I don't think outlier sales like this one truly set the market, I think they are just outliers. Just last month, a similar thing happened with JIM #85. There were two 9.0s on the market -- one with a Buy Now price of $8,250 on eBay and another up for auction on ComicLink. The ComicLink copy (no better or worse than the eBay copy) sold for over $15K. I thought I was quick to go after the eBay book, but somebody beat me to it. Sure enough, they put it up on ComicLink, where I won it for $7,600. They didn't lose a ton of money, but they also didn't double their money like they thought they would by flipping the book. I remember buying a JIM 85 9.0 W from a seller on eBay offline for 2500...Sold it on comiclink for about what I paid for it around 2006 and bought artwork which turned out to be the better investment in the end but I do miss the JIM 85 occasionally now that I'm back into comics Sweet Lou 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dark Knight Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 The JIM 83 CGC 5.5 that sold on CL last night for around $7700 seemed soft RetiredOldMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 2 hours ago, Dark Knight said: The JIM 83 CGC 5.5 that sold on CL last night for around $7700 seemed soft Last one went for 9995 in January RetiredOldMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drummy Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Yeah, that's a $9k book or so -- great deal for the buyer. RetiredOldMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sweet Lou 14 Posted April 23, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2020 New acquisition. As my friend Bob Storms would say: Tough book. Math Teacher, Frederic9494, KirbyJack and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin76 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Very tough in 9.4 Nice! Sweet Lou 14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...